Southern Africa sold the Italians five thousand pounds for each Gale fighter.

This price was just the price of the plane, and there was an extra cost to buy ammunition and train pilots, and more money, and in the end, the average price of the plane was more than 10,000 pounds, which was much more expensive than the "Flyer III".

Knowing this figure, Viscount Gladstone was in a better mood, and the price offered to the British government was not outrageous compared to the price offered to the Italians in southern Africa.

"The Gale fighter is the first type of aircraft mass-produced in southern Africa, and the current aircraft production is a bit low, only about fifty can be produced per month, and after the factory is relocated to Matilda, the output will increase to about two hundred per month, and the Aviation Research Institute is improving the Gale fighter in recent times, and once it is successful, the performance will be further improved-" Roque never cheats people in business, the price is high, but it is worth the money.

"What about the planes sold to the Ottoman Empire?" Viscount Gladstone knew that Southern Africa was making money at both ends.

"It was already sent to Port Edward for loading, where Italian pilots and Ottoman pilots were trained, and as a result, there were clashes all day long, and then I simply sent Ottoman pilots to Port Elizabeth for training, and the Ottomans bought a total of 300 fighters, which is much more generous than the Italians." Roque was very happy, just these two orders, the newly established Nyasaland Airlines earned 3.5 million pounds.

The total investment of the airline's new factory in Matilda is only 3.5 million rand, which is equivalent to Italy and the Ottoman Empire pooling money to build a new factory for Nyasaland Airlines.

Although Italy is ambitious, after all, it has just been unified for a long time, so its strength is still a little weaker than that of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire was rich and rich, but the problems were more numerous and more serious, so Italy and the Ottoman Empire were half a pound and eight taels.

This is a good thing for Roque, it is better that Italy and the Ottoman Empire are evenly matched, so that the fight will be protracted and more conducive to Roque to make money.

It is better to fight this battle until the outbreak of the First World War, and the orders of the Narniasaland military-industrial complex can be smoothly and seamlessly, and Roque regards the Italian-Turkish war as a rehearsal for the world war.

"You make more money here, and the price for the empire is still a little lower." Viscount Gladstone's envy is beyond words, compared with Roque, Viscount Gladstone, the governor is also in a prominent position, whether it is real power or strength, Viscount Gladstone is far from Roque.

Roque heard something else, and then asked Zach to go to the Rand Bank to open a separate account for Viscount Gladstone, and deposit 100,000 pounds at once.

This amount is already a lot, Viscount Gladstone, as the governor of southern Africa, has an annual salary of about 5,000 pounds, which is about the same as the salary of a British cabinet minister, 100,000 pounds is equivalent to Viscount Gladstone's salary for 20 years, and Roque does not believe that Viscount Gladstone is not moved.

Sure enough, when Roque and Viscount Gladstone talked about the price of the "strong wind" again, Viscount Gladstone was hahaha, and the price at this time was no longer four thousand pounds, but five thousand pounds like the Italian Ottoman Empire.

Of course, the cost of weapons, ammunition and training pilots is also not less.

The British government still had a lot of money, and the first order was two hundred, plus the cost of training pilots with weapons and ammunition, and the value of the order soared to 2.6 million pounds, which was more expensive than the price sold to Italy and the Ottoman Empire.

No way, prices skyrocketed under the arms race, orders to Italy and the Ottoman Empire were 1909 prices, and British prices were 1910 prices.

After the order was signed, the time had come to January 1910.

Now King Edward VII of England is still in good health, and no one in the world except Roark knows that Edward VII will die violently six months later.

Now that the arms race is in full swing, no one knows that the whole of Europe, except for Roque, will be dragged into the bottomless abyss by the arms race.

In North Africa, the rivalry between Italy and the Ottoman Empire over Tripolitania is intensifying, and it is said that the fledgling Italian Air Force and the Ottoman Air Force are already exchanging fire over Tripolitania.

Roque can only rejoice now, fortunately he did not agree to directly lend the pilots to Italy and the Ottoman Empire, otherwise the pilots in southern Africa would have been killing each other.

Also in North Africa, Germany and France were fighting over Morocco, and after the Algeciras Conference, France tightened its control over Morocco; However, Germany did not want to see Morocco become a French colony, so since the end of last year, sporadic struggles against French aggression have broken out in northern Morocco.

Equally strained are Southern Africa and South-West Africa.

After the attack on the Southern African Colonial Pioneer Team at the end of last year, which is now named the "1065 Incident", the Governor of Southern Africa, Viscount Gladstone, represented Southern Africa to negotiate with German Southwest Africa, demanding that German Southwest Africa stop its aggression against Southern Africa and compensate the members of the Southern African Pioneer Team who were killed in the "1065 Incident".

The Governor of Southwest Africa categorically denied that the "1065 Incident" was related to Southwest Africa, and strongly condemned the Southern African fighter planes for crossing the Kuando River.

Costumes can be faked, so nothing can be proven.

Although the corpse looks like it has a lot of German characteristics, at a time when the population circulation is so casual, there are also many British and Boers in Southwest Africa, and there are also many Germans in Southern Africa, so it cannot be proved that those horse bandits are Southwest African cavalry.

Viscount Gladstone could slowly fight a lawsuit with the Germans, and Roque was impatient.

On 15 January, a group of unidentified cavalry attacked a patrol force in southwest Africa, and these unidentified cavalrymen had planted mines in advance to preset their positions, used general-purpose machine guns unique to southern Africa, and occupied high ground to attack the patrol force in southwest Africa, and it took less than 10 minutes to completely annihilate a company of the patrol force in southwest Africa.

Before the Governor-General's Office of South West Africa had time to lodge a protest with Viscount Gladstone, on January 16, another South West Africa patrol was attacked in Ochvero, less than a hundred kilometres from Windhoek, with the same general-purpose machine guns, the same mines and grenades, and in less than ten minutes, a company of South West African cavalry was again killed and wounded.

This time the attackers went even further, they stripped the victims naked, arranged the bodies in a special shape in the middle of the road, and if you look at them from the sky, you will find that the corpses form a special word - Scheisse!

The meaning of this word is indescribable, and the degree of filth is roughly equivalent to the German national curse.

On 17 January, the protest at the Governor's House in South West Africa finally reached Viscount Gladstone.

"Hehe, I feel deep sorrow and great sorrow for the people who died, but I'm sorry, you can't arbitrarily say that it was the Southern African Army that launched the attack, yes, the attacker used a 0.303 caliber general-purpose machine gun, but that doesn't prove anything, the British Empire has a powerful military industrial system, many countries around the world use British military weapons, after the autonomy of Southern Africa, it also sells 0.303 caliber general-purpose machine guns to all over the world, not complete statistics include Japan, Russia, Italy and the Ottoman Empire, maybe the Japanese did it! Viscount Gladstone laughed, this is the reply of the Governor of South West Africa to Viscount Gladstone a few days ago, and now Viscount Gladstone returned it as it was.

"Your Excellency, you are playing with fire, and I must solemnly remind you that such irresponsible remarks of yours are likely to lead to a war between our two countries." The German Minister to Southern Africa, Ceci Wardhouse, was simply indignant, and such a reply from Viscount Gladstone was simply a provocation to Germany.

"As long as you dare, we will resolutely accompany you, don't intimidate me with war, we are not Herero people, nor are we those rebels in Fort Glory who have never seen the world, if you dare to talk to me in such a tone again, I will send you back to Southwest Africa, I can assure you that the army of Southern Africa will occupy the entire territory of Southwest Africa within a week, and your native reinforcements will not be able to break through the English Channel in any case, admit it, compared to our British Empire, you Germany are only latecomers, You should have respect for your predecessors, not be as provocative as you are now! Viscount Gladstone was not polite and sprayed Cecy Wardhouse to the ground.

This is the temper tantrum that the governor of southern Africa should have, who scares people with war at every turn, and what does Britain take for him?

"I'll paraphrase your words as they are—" Secy Wardhouse's face flushed, but he didn't dare to say anything more.

There is no way, although Germany has been fighting hard over the years, compared with the powerful empire on which the sun never sets, Germany has no strength to compete.

Viscount Gladstone was right, if war really broke out between South-West Africa and Southern Africa, then Southern Africa did have the strength to occupy South-West Africa within a week.

It didn't even take a week.

If a war breaks out between Southwest Africa and Southern Africa, then Britain will definitely block the English Channel, and then German warships and merchant ships will not be able to pass through the English Channel, so don't think about reinforcements or anything, Southwest Africa can only save itself.

Sisi Waldhouse knew that a secret military exercise had just been held in southern Africa, and Sisi Waldhouse tried his best to find out about the military exercise, but he was unable to do so.

"Whatever you want—" Viscount Gladstone didn't care, if a war did break out between South-West Africa and Southern Africa, it might end the protracted arms race, which might be a good thing for Britain.